Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
STATE NEWS.

case OF william kuhl against ez
Sheriff Rugee and ex Deputy Greding
OF Milwaukee. The first trial resulted
IN q verdict OF SIS, 900 for false i'm
prisonment. Kuhl was mistaken fol
the glorious Lon Williams and was
held by the Milwaukee officers for sew
eral days.
FIRE on the 9Th completely de
stroyed N. G. Fost er's saw mill at
Fairchild, in the eastern part of Eau
Claire County, involving a loss of from
| $25 900 to $3O,O00 The insurance
is light. Thelumber y Yards were saved
AUG. CoTTs, foreman at one of the
Eau Claire Lumber Company's camps
on the South Fork of the Eau Claire,
was struck by a limb from g. tree
which he was Telling, killing him in
stantly. The deceased lived at Downs
vile, Dunn County.
III. A. WINSTON, grocer, of North La
Crosse, has made an assignment of all
his property, except exemptions al
lowed by law, for the benefit of his
creditors. Liabilities, $4,000; as
sets nominally $4,000. Slow collec-
tlons are reported as the cause of
trouble.
The next annual meeting of the Wis
consin Bee Keepers Association will
be held In connection with the Farm
ers' Convention at Madison, on the
Sd OF February. It was deemed ad-
vlsable by the bee-keepers of the state
to hold their meeting at that time, be-
cause so many of the members of the
Agricultural Society are interested in
Bookkeeping.
A DISPATCH from Uniontown, Pa,
annoanced the suicide of Charles E.
Moffat, of Milwaukee, at the Wyatt
Hotel in that city.
LEWIS PLANTAN was instantly killed
at Sharp's camp, north of Augusta
He was driving yoke Of oxen past O.
tree which was being felled, when a
piece OF the top fell, striking him upon
the head.
A HUNGARIAN vagrant, confined in
the jail at Madison, made g. desperate
attempt at suicide. He was found ly-
ing IN his cell with large darning-
needle protruding from his body in the
region OF the stomach, and marks of
puncture in various portions of the
abdomen. 1t is believed that the
would-be suicide succeeded in COM
pletely burying two darning-needles,
as it is learned that he had three such
needles stuck in his cap when he en-
tered the jail. Doubts are entertained
OF his recovery.
The records of the Milwaukee GUS
toms office show that during 1886,
l29 carloads of beer were exported
from Milwaukee, as follows: Phillip
Best Brewing Company, go; Joseph
Schlltz Brewing Company, AZ;
Torchiani & Kremer, 10; Franz Falk
Brewing Company, s; V. Blatz, 6.
THE Home Stake Mining Company,
of Milwaukee, has been Incorporated
by Eben Ell. Smith, G. Tarbell and
Weed with a stated capital of 81 ,OOO,-
600.
SHORTLY after o'clock on the night
OF the 9th fire broke out in the
foundry department. of the E. P. Allis
Reliance Works, at Milwaukee, and
before the blaze was under control
caused O. loss estimated between
$4,000 and $25O,O0O. This is the
first serious fire which has occurred in
the works. The total insurance on
the Establishment is 100000.
JAMES B. RICHARDSON, of Utica, N.
Y, was arrested in Milwaukee on the
9th in q civil suit for Islander, pre-
ferrad by VIM. T. Mendelson, local
shoe dealer. The damages are placed
at $4,000.
The Marshall mill dam, on Lower
Greek, five miles south of Eau Claire,
collapsed, causing a damage of from
81, 500 to $4,000.
JOHN LoFsTRANE, Of Mason, sur
rendered himself to Sheriff Gonyon, OF
Bayfield,, stating that he had shot a
man the night previous in self-defense.
1t appears that two brothers, Hans
and II. Heardline, called at the house
of Lofstrane, and after having par
taken of several drinks of whisky, in
sisted upon taking Lofstrane home
with them. Lofstrane refused to go,
and they endeavored to force him. In
the scuffle which folio wed, Hans was
shot three times by Lofstrane, and
died the following day.
THE firm of E. P. Allis 81 Co., of Mil
waukee, was recently victimized to
the extent of $1,000 by an agent at
Lincoln, Neb., named j. E. Wilson.
The agent pretended that he needed
the money in order to secure g. debt.
A draft for the amount was sent him
when he Immediately left for parts
unknown, leaving a wife and three
children at Lincoln. 1t is said that
there is woman In the case.
THE gross earnings of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad tor the
fourth week in December were $742,-
900; same week last year, 1874 900;
increase $4,000. The gross earnings
of the road for the year we're $24, 49,
876; 1885, $24,415, S16; increase for
year, 1904, 900.
THE body OF 2 months old child was
found in a. snow bank near the track
of the North Western road just out
side the Milwaukee city limits. APP
pearances Indicate that the little one,
while alive. was thrown from a pass
ing train, and that death resulted
from exposure. The body was frozen
stiff when discovered.
WILLIAM J. LUITHLEN, engaged in
the rataiI hard ware business at North